The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
HERACLITUSGood character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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A man’s character is his fate.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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The sun is new each day.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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